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Sierra Club on recent fuel leak at U.S. Navy s Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility | Full Article
The Navy said the 1,000-gallon spill was contained and did not leave the facility. The Sierra Club said the spill underscores the threat of future spills and the risk to our drinking water. Attorney David Kimo Frankel represented the environmental group in a hearing earlier this year. He argued against giving the military a permit to operate the facility that the Navy claimed is critical for national security.
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Hawaii, USA (KITV) In Hawaii, like much of the world during the COVID-19 Pandemic, people hoping to grow or start a family are finding themselves stunted.
For the longest time, solutions were found overseas, but people wanting to adopt are now waiting longer and looking locally for answers.
Each year, CEO Kristine Altwies says her adoption agency Hawaii International Child (now called A Family Tree) finds homes for about 75 children from countries like China, the Philippines and Japan. But during the pandemic, that number has fallen to 20.
“There’s the issue of the orphans not being able to leave the orphanage to come home. There’s the issue of American citizens not being able to travel abroad to pick up the children. And then there’s the issue of the US immigration authority not issuing the travel visas for the orphans to come here to their families,” Altwies said.